Definitions for SABRE

SABRE sa·bre

Spelling: [sey-ber]
IPA: /ˈseɪ bər/

Sabre is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in SABRE (abers).

Definitions for SABRE

noun

  1. a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
  2. a soldier armed with such a sword.
  3. Fencing. a sword having two cutting edges and a blunt point. the art or sport of fencing with the saber, with the target being limited to the head, trunk, and arms, and hits being made with the front edge and the upper part of the back edge of the sword and by thrusts.

verb (used with object)

  1. to strike, wound, or kill with a saber.

noun, verb (used with object)

  1. saber.

Origin of SABRE

1670-80; French sabre, sable German Sabel (now Säbel), earlier sewel, schebel Polish szabla; compare Czech šavle, Serbo-Croatian sȁblja, Russian sáblya sword, saber, perhaps all ultimately Hu

Examples for SABRE

In time we will know if this was nothing more than sabre rattling or an all out war for control of the GOP.

And then the printers, manufactured by new Dunder Mifflin parent company sabre, began to catch on fire.

The grasp on the sabre would tighten; the quiet eyes would flash.

My sabre and gun I placed in a corner, my pistols I laid on the table.

He parried the blow on his sabre, and with the flat of it knocked his assailant senseless.

But these resentments, They are the rocket fuel That lives In the tip of my sabre.

A man on horseback, with a sabre at his side, was in the midst of them.

He rose to his full height, standing before her with both hands on his sabre.

The Federal's pistol slid into its holster and his sabre flashed out.

He waves his sabre, shouts, and hurls himself forward with his eyes shut.

Word Value for SABRE
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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